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Michael Hiltzik: You paid off your student loans. You should still support canceling them for others

A major consequence of the ending of Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign is the loss - at least for now - of a voice so adept at explaining how progressive policies work to the benefit of all Americans, regardless of their station in life.

The best example of this may have come in January, when Warren responded to a voter outraged that, after he had paid student loans, she was proposing that those in the same situation get relief.

Warren's questioner stalked away before she could fully answer his complaint, but she finished her explanation a few days later on CBS (though she had to talk over a preening anchorman's interruption to

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